Blues Rock Guitar Lesson: Playing with Attitude
One of the most powerful qualities that music posses is its almost universal ability to move us. Music can inspire feelings across the entire emotional spectrum and skilled musicians can tap into all of those ranging emotions based on the way they play. Based on their touch, feel, tone, and dynamics, for example, musicians of all genres can communicate the entire stretch of human emotions within any given performance.
Classical Mandolin Lesson: An Introduction to Vibrato
Instruments are designed, for the most part, to emulate the sonic capabilities of the human voice. What’s beautiful about the human voice, particularly in the context of music, is its ability to convey a vast array of complex emotions by using subtle inflections and intricate nuances within a musical passage. These nuances can be as simple as slightly wavering the pitch of a single note up or down, a technique referred to as vibrato, which can completely alter the emotional character of a performance.
The Dave Stryker Trio Opening for Steely Dan’s Summer Tour
This month, award-winning master guitarist and ArtistWorks jazz guitar instructor, Dave Stryker, will join the members of his trio as they open for legendary rock and jazz fusion band, Steely Dan, on their "Earth After Hours" summer tour. The tour’s twenty-five show series will run from late June through mid-August and will be held in cities throughout the eastern United States.
5/29/22 Message from Bryan
Hey all!
Just wanted to let everyone know that as of today (5/29/22), I'm officially running behind schedule. There have been times over the years where personal or family time coupled with other aspects of my career prevent me from maintaining the normal VE regularity here at Artistworks. With my daughters both graduating college and high school the last few weeks, we've taken a vacation to celebrate. I'll return home from that 5/30/22 and catch up as much as I can then. I'm headed to North Carolina for the Blue Ridge Guitar Camp the next day (finally!) and I know I won't be fully caught up. I'll be back from the camp on 6/6/22 to officially get back on track. I appreciate your patience in what historically has been a pretty rare couple of weeks of not being able to do VEs.
Thanks, and Happy Picking!
Bryan
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Electric Bass Lesson: Creating Harmonic Chords
One of the interesting and unique qualities of stringed instruments is that their construction allows players to quickly access a wide range of harmonic tones with relative ease. The easy access to harmonics allows players of nearly all stringed instruments to implement these unique sonic textures into their playing in limitless creative and boundary-pushing ways.
Four New FREE Downloadable Practice Packets!
It goes without saying that dedicating focused time to practice is the best way to improve on your instrument. However, many of us don’t have the luxury of being able to commit 8 hours or even 1 hour a day to practice. Many of us are only able to allocate 30 or sometimes even just 10 to 15 minutes to our practice per day.
Celebrating 10 Years of “Rock Guitar with Paul Gilbert”
AritstWorks was founded in 2008 with a vision of providing anyone, anywhere in the world with affordable, interactive access to some of the greatest music teachers on the planet. Our mission is to "Teach the World Music," and through our comprehensive online music lessons, patented Video Exchange Learning® platform, and faculty of master musicians, we’ve been able to bring the joys of learning to thousands of players around the globe.
Special Guest Interview: Mike Seeger
The final 5 parts of the Mike Seeger interview series have just been added! Mike walks us through a variety of banjos showing us all the different styles and designs of the instrument, giving us a brief look at the history and evolution of the Banjo. If you've already checked out the first 29 parts CLICK HERE to go straight to part 30. If you’re just seeing this for the first time CLICK HERE to start from the beginning.
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Electric Bass Lesson: An Introduction to Slapping
Since its inception in the 1970s, slap bass and its signature sound have become essential to the aesthetic of a variety of genres ranging from rock to funk, jazz, R&B, country, soul, and more.
New Lesson Added: Béla Single String Concepts – Getting Started
We've just added a new lesson to the Intermediate lesson department! In this new 2 part lesson, Tony gets you started with the basics you'll need to develop your single string style playing. He introduces some great exercises to build the dexterity and get comfortable with this style, used extensively by the great Béla Fleck. To check out the lesson now CLICK HERE. Happy picking!
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